Friday, October 15, 2010

Obscured taser-cam figures reveal widespread taser overuse in NSW

In reference to NSW, Australia:
The 146 instances where cameras were obscured in the 18 months to September this year represented 13 per cent of all taser incidents during that period... [LINK] [via TNT]

Anyone else notice?

146 incidents of obscured taser-cams is 13% of all taser incidents? Do the math, ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE taser incidents in 18 months. The police are using tasers 750 times per year, in New South Wales alone !?!!!

So, just how numerically-illiterate would you have be to claim that "Taser deployments replace police gun fire, and therefore save lives" ?

Anyone that makes such an utterly false claim is either deeply ignorant of the basic facts, or is a bald-face liar.

People in positions of leadership have no excuse to be ill-informed.

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